§ 22. Mr. LEVY (for Sir REGINALD CLARRY)asked the Secretary for Mines whether he will specify the foreign countries and destinations of the 5,937,000 tons of coal exported from Bristol Channel ports during the year 1935 which are unrestricted as to price and delivery by the purchaser; and whether this quantity could be materially increased if lower prices, additional facilities, or other special inducements were quoted by the exporter?
§ Captain CROOKSHANKAs the answer to the first part of the question involves a table covering no less than 55 separate destinations, I will, with my hon. Friend's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The second part of the question involves a variety of considerations too complicated to be suitable for discussion within the limits of the reply to a question. I would point out, however, that a large proportion of this tonnage was shipped to markets where the United Kingdom was the principal or sole supplier.
§ Following is the table:
| Coal Exports in 1935 from Bristol Channel Ports to Countries other than those with which Trade Agreements are in existence or where quantitative restriction of the importation and/or consumption of foreign coal is in, force. | |
| Country to which consigned. | Quantity from Bristol Channel Ports. |
| Tons. | |
| Channel Islands | 160,562 |
| Gibraltar | 193,337 |
| Malta and Gozo | 56,243 |
| Country to which consigned. | Quantity from Bristol Channel Ports. |
| Tons. | |
| Cyprus | 912 |
| Palestine (including Trans-Jordan) | 111,144 |
| Sierra Leone | 46,969 |
| Gold Coast (including Togo-land, under British Mandate) | 2,002 |
| Nigeria (including Cameroons, under British Mandate) | 802 |
| Aden and Dependencies | 18,752 |
| British India | 6,102 |
| Straits Settlements and Dependencies (including Labuan) | 16,376 |
| Ceylon and Dependencies | 23,324 |
| Hong Kong | 4,000 |
| Australia | 10,007 |
| Canada | 1,151,243 |
| Newfoundland and coast of Labrador | 53,403 |
| Bermuda | 4,709 |
| Jamaica and Dependencies | 12,479 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 195 |
| Other British West India Isles | 2,957 |
| British Guiana | 519 |
| Java | 173 |
| Algeria | 376,843 |
| Tunis | 121,068 |
| French West and Equatorial Africa | 83,047 |
| French Somaliland | 13,488 |
| Madagascar and Dependencies | 3,512 |
| Reunion (Bourbon) | 495 |
| Syria | 1,138 |
| French West India Isles | 8,642 |
| Portugal | 939,246 |
| Azores | 7,633 |
| Madeira | 41,056 |
| Portuguese West Africa (excluding Angola) | 26,337 |
| Angola | 10,126 |
| Canary Islands | 166,005 |
| Spanish Ports in North Africa | 100,996 |
| Italian Aegean Isles | 3,843 |
| Libya | 16,021 |
| Italian East Africa | 5,496 |
| Yugo-Slavia | 2,149 |
| Greece | 97,520 |
| Roumania | 10,841 |
| Egypt | 1,379,848 |
| Morocco | 41,691 |
| Iraq | 295 |
| China (exclusive of Hong Kong, Macoa, Manchuria and leased territories) | 496 |
| United States of America | 113,099 |
| Cuba | 6,463 |
| St. Domingo | 507 |
| Chile | 785 |
| Brazil | 474,630 |
| Bolivia | 7 |
| Paraguay | 58 |
| Whale Fisheries, Foreign | 7,330 |
| Total of above destinations | 5,936,921 |